Irish Studies Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 (April 2001)

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Index and Cover-page Album

Contents
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Articles
  • Margaret Kelleher, ‘Writing Irish Women’s Literary History’. [5]
  • Mary C. King, ‘Typing Dorian Gray: Wilde and the Interpellated Text’. [15]
  • John McAuliffe, ‘Taking the Sting out of the Traveller’s Tale: Thackeray’s Irish Sketchbook’. [25]
  • Patrick J. Bracken & Patrick O’Sullivan, ‘The Invisibility of Irish Migrants in British Health Research’. [41]
  • Paul Delaney, ‘Representations of the Travellers in the 1880s and 1900s’. [53]
  • Lisa Nopkins, The Irish and the Germans in the Fiction of John Buchan and Erskine Childers’. [69].
 
Review article
  • James E. Doan, ‘Revisiting the Blasket Island Memoirs: Island Cross-Talk’ - Pages from a Blasket Island Diary, by Tomas O’Crohan; The Islandman, by Tomas O’Crohan; The Western Island or The Great Blasket, by Robin Flower; Twenty Years A-Growing, by Maurice O’Sullivan; An Old Woman’s Reflections, by Peig Sayers; A Pity Youth Does Not Last: Reminiscences of the Last of the Great Blasket Island’s Poets and Storytellers by Micheal O’Guiheen, and A Day in Our Life, by Sean O’Crohan.
 
Reviews / Folklore, Mythology & Memoir
  • Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity, by Diarmuid Ó Giollain, reviewed by Jose Lanters.
  • Speaking Volumes: A Dublin Childhood, by Edith Newman Devlin; reviewed by Sarah Ferris.
 
Reviews / History & Politics
  • Medieval Dublin I, ed. Sean Duffy, reviewed by Terry Barry.
  • Sir Arthur Chichester: Lord Deputy of Ireland 1605-16, by John McCavitt, reviewed by Nicholas Canny.
  • Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649: A Constitutional and Political Analysis, by Micheal Ó Síochrú, reviewed by Robert Armstrong.
  • Political Ideas in Eighteenth-century Ireland, ed. S. J. Connolly, reviewed by Tom Bartlett.
  • The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Vol. 1: “The Early Writings”, ed. James T. Boulton & T. O. McLoughlin; and Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France: New Interdisciplinary Essays, ed. John Whale, reviewed by Jefferson Holdridge.
  • Prince of Swindlers: John Sadlier MP, 1813-1856, by James O’Shea; and Clonmel, 1840-1900: Anatomy of an Irish Town, by Sean O’Donnell, reviewed by Gerard Moran.
  • Mapping the Great Irish Famine, by Liam Kennedy, P[aul] S. Ell, E. M. Crawford & L. A. Clarkson, reviewed by Thomas O’Loughlin.
  • Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture, by Stephen Howe, reviewed by Richard Kirkland.
  • Colonial Discipline: the Making of the Irish Convict System, by Patrick Carroll-Burke, reviewed by Joseph P. Starr.
  • MacBride’s Brigade: Irish Commandos in the Anglo-Boer War, by Donal Po McCracken, reviewed by Denis Judd.
  • Before the Revolution: Nationalism, Social Change and Ireland’s Catholic Elite, 1879-1922, by Senia Paseta, reviewed by Peter Hart.
  • Grace Gifford Plunkett and Irish Freedom: Tragic Bride of 1916, by Marie O’Neill; and The Sinn Fein Rebellion “As They Saw It”, ed. Keith Jeffery, reviewed by Mary E. Daly.
  • A Nation of Extremes: the Pioneers in Twentieth-century Ireland, by Diarmaid Ferriter, and Oracles of God: The Roman Catholic Church and Irish Politics, 1922-1937, by Patrick Murray, reviewed by Mary Harris.
  • Paths to a Settlement in Northern Ireland, by Sean Farren & Robert F. Mulvihill, reviewed by Robert Mahony.
  • Alfred Webb: the Autobiography of a Quaker Nationalist, ed. Marie Louise Legg, reviewed by John Benjamin Levitas.
  • Unfinished Business: State Killings and the Quest for Truth, by Bill Rolston with Mairead Gilmartin, reviewed by Mary S. Corcoran.
 
Reviews / Literature
  • Drama, Peiformance, and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland, by Alan J O. Fletcher, reviewed by Dermot Cavanagh.
  • The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice and the Anglo-lrish Colonial Order, by Margot Gayle Backus, reviewed by David Glover.
  • Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth Century Ireland, by Terry Eagleton, reviewed by Matthew Campbell.
  • The Story of a Toiler’s Life, by James Mullin, ed. Patrick Maume, reviewed by Liam Kennedy.
  • George Moore, 1852-1933, by Adrian Frazier, and The Untilled Field, by George Moore (1903), introduced by Richard Allen Cave, reviewed by Brendan Fleming.
  • Wilde Style: The Plays and Prose of Oscar Wilde, by Neil Sammells, reviewed by Maureen O’Connor.
  • Yeats ’s Poetry, Drama and Prose, ed. James Pethica, reviewed by Robert Tracy.
  • Those Mingled Seas: the Poetry of W: B. Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime, by Jefferson Holdridge, reviewed by Richard Greaves.
  • States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and the Irish Experiment, by Vicki Mahaffey, and The Cast of Characters: A Reading of Ulysses, by Paul Schwaber, reviewed by Ronan MacDonald.
  • Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories, ed. Liam Harte & Michael Parker, reviewed by Roberta Gefter Wondrich.
  • The Supreme Fictions of John Banville, by Joseph McMinn, reviewed by Peter Dempsey.
  • The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel, by Nicholas Grene, reviewed by Christina Hunt Mahony.] Brian Friel’s (Post)Colonial Drama: Language, Illusion, and Politics, by F. C. McGrath, reviewed by Aidan Arrowsmith.
  • Other People’s Houses, by Vona Groarke; and Seatown, by Conor O’Callaghan, reviewed by Gregory Castle.
  • Toccata and Fugue, by John F. Deane; and Music by Desmond Egan, reviewed by Neil Reeves.
Reviews / Media & Cultural Studies
  • Dialogues in the Margin: A Study of the “Dublin University Magazine”, by Wayne E. Hall, reviewed by James H. Murphy.
  • Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Music, Visual Arts and Non-print Media, ed. Lois Oppenheim, reviewed by James Knowlson.

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